Maybe they could start by listening to some of the player’s feedback. Especially from players who have 2.5k hours clocked who are dumping the game on its ass after 1 day into the new season.
I made suggestion and request over and over for there to be more importance put onto the competitive platform of the game- arena, racing, corruption ladder, and so on. It looks like there have been little changes to address a stale arena ladder from last patch, in fact, the previous patch’s arena ladders aren’t even available to view either ingame, on the website or even on third party websites like lastepochtools.
Which gives me the impression that they don’t give a shit. In turn, I also don’t give a shit.
Instead, we got undocumented dogshit changes like white beetles normal damage hits freezing for 2 seconds with no diminishing returns. Who playtested this garbage and thought this was a good idea to implement? Something that is almost unavoidable and with zero counterplay killed my character in hardcore at level 30. I sat in the full freeze from full hp and 4 full potions down to zero potions, down to dead, while my character was still frozen.
These above things indicated to me that they are not listening from their mistakes, are still not listening to players. Don’t give a shit about proper competitive platform? Okay, nobody will stream or play the game because there isn’t any competition to participate in. 250k peak players, to 150k peak players, to 80k peak players, to 40k peak players this time around. Next time it will be 20k.
I’m done giving them second chances thinking they will change things, listen to players, or review their systems for making season to season changes. They clearly don’t think there is anything wrong with their systems since they refuse to budge, despite the clearly rapidly declining player base size.
I know even if i played softcore, the white beetles will be left in arena unpatched for weeks probably, making the decider of who the best arena players whoever was ‘lucky’ enough to not get multiple beetle waves spawning from different directions simultaneously on a closed-layout arena.
I’m not even going to begin wasting any time this time around. I came from playing PoE2, where using ranged skills did not interupt the movement of your character, where it was possible to run and gun strafe with WSAD while shooting and moving. I realized just how terrible it feels to get stuck in place every time I use a ranged ability here, compared to how good the gameplay feels over there. I watched streams like Lizard where he almost gets his face blown off by the tiniest exploding particles of a monster, with no visual clarity or room for counterplay, and I see they have no idea how to improve the game or address these issues.
I’ve given them enough chances in the past. I won’t waste any time this time around. I won’t login to play again, I can’t be bothered, I’d rather spend my time practicing PoE2 and playing the monthly races they have setup there and preparing for their 0.5 patch, which will undoubtly give me plenty of months of enjoyment and a viable competitive platform.
It is what it is and maybe they will wake up when there are 15k peak players come next LE season, or when the player count drops so low they can no longer generate revenue to cover their expenses.
Sorry to be blunt but it is what it its and I’m done being courteous with my feedback. Maybe something that is alarming and pisses them off might get some attention, since nothing else I ever posted about ever got any traction.
Peace out, cya in PoE2, I’d rather spend my time in a game that I see having a future. Which is sad, because I believed in this game for a very, very long time in EA. But not anymore.
